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Munk's Debut CD. "Located somewhere comfortably close to Nine Inch Nails and Machines of Loving Grace, Munk's artistry is an accessible mixture of organic electronica and dark hip-hop flavors." - Northeast Performer Magazine
Genre:
Electronic: Breakbeat/Breaks
Release Date:
2001
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Anime Sweetheart
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Record Label: Waxboy Records
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"[munk] is a Boston based producer and Electronica guru who crafts insistent breakbeats and dance hooks with intelligence and panache" - The Boston Globe
"[munk]'s artistry is an accessible mixture of organic electronica and dark hip-hop flavors." - Northeast Performer
"...a wonderful doppelganger hybrid of Lenny Kravitz, Trent Reznor, J.S. Clayden(Pitchshifter), and Gibby Haynes." - Digital Artifact
[munk]'s genre-defying 2001 debut, 'Anime Sweetheart', laden with nods from hip-hop and jungle beats to pop hooks and pure rock swagger, was lauded by the press, propelled into rotation nationally at college radio and appeared in promos for Abercrombie & Fitch and episodes of The Sopranos and The WB's Charmed. The multi-instrumentalist, who performed 99% of the CD himself, then hit the road regionally with a full band and proceeded to claw his way through the ranks in New England. In the span of six months, [munk] went from a mere "blip on the radar" to opening slots for signed acts touring the region.
As the audience grew, fans started to come from everywhere - including WFNX Program Director Cruze who invited [munk] to perform at the 2002 WFNX/Phoenix Best Music Poll. He was given the much-coveted slot along side National headliners for the station's big Summer event. [munk] was also invited to play such events as the 2002 WBCN Rumble, 2002 NEMO Music Conference and recently performed at The Hard Rock Cafe in Boston at this year's NEMO conference.
[munk] has recently completed his second release 'Severed', in which he boldly re-invents his sound, shaping it into a melodic and aggressive collection of 12 uncharacteristically personal tracks. "Where 'Anime' was about liberation, celebration and beginnings, 'Severed' is focused more on darkness and endings and the solitude of loss.", [munk] explains. The full live band, walls of multi-layered guitars, ripping, tortured vocals and haunting textures paint a forlorn portrait chronicling a year mired by tumultuous relationships and ending in personal tragedy with a near fatal auto-accident in June 2003.
'Severed' is available on CD Baby. You can also hear [munk] on Thea Wolfe's debut "Take Me Down" which he produced (also available on CD Baby).
: : Honorable mention for two songs Billboard Songwriting Contest 2003
: : [munk] won the ASCAP Popular Songwriting Award, 1999-2001
: : 'Anime Sweetheart' was charted on the Top 30 of over 100 college stations around the country.
: : "Strip It Down" was featured on The Sopranos 11.02.02
: : 'Knucklebones" was featured in the WB's Charmed 10.25.01
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Can superstar status be far behind?
author: The Boston Globe
Go! has sung the praises of local producer Munk ever since we heard his CD ''Anime Sweetheart,'' overflowing with dizzy beats and hooks. Arbiter of cool that we are, we saw others jumping on the bandwagon, and buzz began to build. He crafts his music with intelligence and panache. Can superstar status be far behind?
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...the kind of music that simply oozes coolness.
author: The Noise
I am in love with Munk. I pop this CD in my player and it hasn't left since. The blend of hard hitting hip hop beats and smooth electronic melodies, with the just the right dash of funk mixed in, is balanced at that perfect level that caters to both the bubblegum techno ravers and hardcore lovers alike. His stuff is madly addictive. Before you know it, you’ll be skipping work to listen to Munk. Not long afterward, you’ll start shooting up Munk in the bathroom. No really, it’s that good. A perfect blend of irony (as in "Back to Hollywood"), ballads (as in "The Lies We Tell"), and just plain kick ass rock & roll. The pace changes with every song, keeping you glued to your earphones until the end of the album. Never a dull moment, I swear! It’s the kind of music that simply oozes coolness.
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If you like things that rock and shake, this is what you will enjoy.
author: Northeast Performer
Located somewhere comfortably close to Nine Inch Nails and Machines of Loving Grace, Munk's artistry is an accessible mixture of organic electronica and dark hip-hop flavors. The fast-paced, percolating opener "Knucklebones" is a fine example. It riffs along behind a driving drum loop while Munk raps about his badness in full stereo. Samples and syncopation add grit to the mix.
From lyrics to beats, Munk has a complete game. "I'm deep like an existential author" he contends slyly on track 3. The album sounds great, it looks great (slick CGI image of the Anime Sweetheart babe) and Munk's writing is strong enough for each track to have an identity. He nods to Japanese cartoons, Soul Coughing (Mike Doughty does a brief cameo), Fox's Dark Angel, and other stuff that's almost universally appreciated by boys grown older.
Munk's spiffy superhuman ability: production. He cooked up this entire disc on a Mac G3 in his house, and it sounds lovely. His material crackles out of the speakers. Live guitar and drums are perfectly integrated into the mix, while retaining their inherent nastiness. Each song does its own thing but sounds cut from the same cloth. The mix is perfect, and there's no dross: everything's good. Mixing a home-studio CD to this production level is no joke. There's not a major-label studio in LA that could have done any better.
Anime Sweetheart is fine, fine work. It gets progressively more danceable and more memorable as it goes, and that's from a strong start. If you like things that rock and shake, this is what you will enjoy.
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